Established as Tongshuai Theater (統帥影劇院) around 1986 and renamed Kowloon Theater (九龍影劇院) in 1991, this was a sleazy cinema exclusively screening adult films. It was located inside, or perhaps next to, a hotel that has also changed names on several occasions.
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Demand for such a business naturally decreased throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s and the theater seems to have vanished. Whether it was originally a purpose-built structure next to the hotel or just a room somewhere at the back is unclear, but in any case, those days are long gone.
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- New Taipei Gold Museum Report: In Search of Old Theaters, Hsinchu Municipal Cultural Center, 2019 《新北市立黃金博物館「尋找老戲院身影」》，新竹市立文化中心，2019
Themes
- Theaters in Taiwan (台灣老戲院)
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